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[OUTREACHY] git send-email issues

Subject: [OUTREACHY] git send-email issues

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4 messages between Oct 8, 2023 and Oct 9, 2023.

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Naomi Ibe· Oct 8, 2023, 21:59 UTC · lore

I've been able to edit the add.c file since friday and I've created my patches too. The error I keep getting when I run either "git send-email --to=naomi.ibeh69@gmail.com builtin/0001-OUTREACHY-Fixed-add.c-file-to-conform-to-guidelines-.patch" or "git send-email --to=git@vger.kernel.org builtin/0001-OUTREACHY-Fixed-add.c-file-to-conform-to-guidelines-.patch" is this:

**Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug. VALUES: server=smtp.gmail.com encryption=tls hello=localhost.localdomain port=587 at C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-send-email line 1725, <FIN> line 1.**

I've used the --smtp-debug tag, checked the official docs and other docs too, plus stackoverflow,google and even chatgpt, but nothing seems to be working. I've even had to change my gmail password tonight but it still doesn't work. Any tips at all would be greatly appreciated at this point. Thank you

Kristoffer Haugsbakk· Oct 8, 2023, 22:16 UTC · re: Naomi Ibe · lore

Re: [OUTREACHY] git send-email issues

Hi Naomi

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, at 23:59, Naomi Ibe wrote:

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> I've used the --smtp-debug tag, checked the official docs and other
> docs too, plus stackoverflow,google and even chatgpt, but nothing
> seems to be working. I've even had to change my gmail password tonight
> but it still doesn't work. Any tips at all would be greatly
> appreciated at this point. Thank you

Here [1] is a good resource for setting up Gmail for git-send-email. It's a bit of a chore to set up but that resource was enough for me to get it working. One of the things that you are going to need is an App password.

But have you considered using GitGitGadget instead?[2] You can make a pull request on that repository and then the program (gitgitgadget) can send the emails to this mailing list for you.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/68238913/1725151

[2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/

-- 
Kristoffer

Naomi Ibe· Oct 8, 2023, 22:37 UTC · re: Kristoffer Haugsbakk · lore

Re: [OUTREACHY] git send-email issues

Oh wow I read about gitgadget but didn't understand how it works, I'd definitely check it out with these links you sent and I really hope it works. Thank you very very much

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:17 PM Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> wrote:

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>
> Hi Naomi
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, at 23:59, Naomi Ibe wrote:
> > I've used the --smtp-debug tag, checked the official docs and other
> > docs too, plus stackoverflow,google and even chatgpt, but nothing
> > seems to be working. I've even had to change my gmail password tonight
> > but it still doesn't work. Any tips at all would be greatly
> > appreciated at this point. Thank you
>
> Here [1] is a good resource for setting up Gmail for git-send-email. It's
> a bit of a chore to set up but that resource was enough for me to get it
> working. One of the things that you are going to need is an App password.
>
> But have you considered using GitGitGadget instead?[2] You can make a pull
> request on that repository and then the program (gitgitgadget) can send
> the emails to this mailing list for you.
>
> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/68238913/1725151
>
> [2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/
>
> --
> Kristoffer

Naomi Ibe· Oct 9, 2023, 01:25 UTC · re: Naomi Ibe · lore

Re: [OUTREACHY] git send-email issues

I finally got the hang of it!! Apparently I was supposed to set encryption to "ssl" and serverport to 465, but for the past two days I'd been using "tls" for encryption and serverport as 587, once I exchanged them, all was done. I wasn't able to get the hang of gitgitgadget tonight but I'd definitely be looking into it in the coming days.

On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:37 PM Naomi Ibe <naomi.ibeh69@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Oh wow
> I read about gitgadget but didn't understand how it works, I'd
> definitely check it out with these links you sent and I really hope it
> works. Thank you very very much
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:17 PM Kristoffer Haugsbakk
> <code@khaugsbakk.name> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Naomi
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, at 23:59, Naomi Ibe wrote:
> > > I've used the --smtp-debug tag, checked the official docs and other
> > > docs too, plus stackoverflow,google and even chatgpt, but nothing
> > > seems to be working. I've even had to change my gmail password tonight
> > > but it still doesn't work. Any tips at all would be greatly
> > > appreciated at this point. Thank you
> >
> > Here [1] is a good resource for setting up Gmail for git-send-email. It's
> > a bit of a chore to set up but that resource was enough for me to get it
> > working. One of the things that you are going to need is an App password.
> >
> > But have you considered using GitGitGadget instead?[2] You can make a pull
> > request on that repository and then the program (gitgitgadget) can send
> > the emails to this mailing list for you.
> >
> > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/68238913/1725151
> >
> > [2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/
> >
> > --
> > Kristoffer